Hi Martin,
I've installed the 'Quiz' module, and it's really great.
I've a couple of suggestions:
1. Can you consider to call the module 'Test' or 'Assessment' (but test is better) instead of 'Quiz'? Quiz is for a tv-show, test is for edu...
2. Would be very usefull the option to prepare a 'quiz' that randomly selects N questions out of M selected.
Ciao,
tommaso
Hi,
Hmm .. I can see what you mean, I think, but I'll stick with Quiz. A quiz is a short test, but not all tests are quizzes.
http://www.dictionary.com/search?q=quiz
http://www.dictionary.com/search?q=test
Most commercial LMSs use "Quiz" and so I feel most online teachers and students would be used to that. Also, I like the slightly less serious tone of the word - it's always going to possible to cheat with online tests - I don't think teachers should be relying on them for all of their assessment.
Yes, the random question feature is on my list ... I'm still thinking about the best interface for it (mostly for how the grading should work). This might be in 1.0.7 though (1.0.6 has enough, I think!)
Cheers,
Martin
Hmm .. I can see what you mean, I think, but I'll stick with Quiz. A quiz is a short test, but not all tests are quizzes.
http://www.dictionary.com/search?q=quiz
http://www.dictionary.com/search?q=test
Most commercial LMSs use "Quiz" and so I feel most online teachers and students would be used to that. Also, I like the slightly less serious tone of the word - it's always going to possible to cheat with online tests - I don't think teachers should be relying on them for all of their assessment.
Yes, the random question feature is on my list ... I'm still thinking about the best interface for it (mostly for how the grading should work). This might be in 1.0.7 though (1.0.6 has enough, I think!)
Cheers,
Martin
Hi.
offtopic: I'm really glad to find Moodle (for all its features, open-ness and GPL . I've downloaded it, but it'll take me a few weeks to make it work. Have you thought about moodle-the-sourceforge-way? I mean that anyone could create his moodle server without actually installing anything. I don't know anything about your 'system resources', but this would definitely be a very nice thing to do.
In fact, I just wish to use the quiz module, but I need this feature: all my pupils sit next to each other, and we're in the Czech Republic. This means, that it's very important to ensure that pupils cannot simply copy the answers from their neighbours. Some years ago, I made a simple quiz-template-tool for Mac (HyperCard), and solved the problem this way:
- There are always more questions in the quiz and only a given number of them is randomly selected.
- The questions are server to the pupil at a random order.
- The pupil answers the questions one-by-one and cannot go back (pupils are always warned about this at the beginning).
My questions are:
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How deep in your todo list would such features be?
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(Cannot you assign the work on your modules to some of your students
I admit I could prepare the module myself (I probably know all I need to do that), but I'm kind of too busy with other things (still doing my master thesis, and on a very different topic).
Thanks very much, Andrew.
It's a weird tangent, but on the idea of just wanting to use one part of Moodle, I'd really love to be able to just use Moodle's forum abiity.. it's hand down one of the nicest online forum modules I've seen. Don't get me wrong, I love using Moodle for courses I'm teaching... it's just that for other web stuff I also need to have links to just discussion forums, and I like Moodl'es forum interface far more than what I'm using now (phpbb).
I'll do customisations for US$50 an hour. 
You can make this change yourself at the /exam/admin/lang.php?mode=compare page in the section for quiz.php by changing all references to quiz to test or exam or whatevery you like.